Plan ahead

While you are planning your meals think ahead.  White a little forethought, dinner one night can be lunch the next day.  For dinner we ate grilled chicken, noodle salad, corn and green salad.  If you have sides like noodle salad that are not great as far as calories and whole foods you can not eat it or only take one small helping.  Add up the calories to stay on track.

I cooked a few extra pieces of chicken that night and put them in the frig and today I ate grilled chicken salad for lunch.  My salads look a little dull but don't limit yourself.  Add peppers, onions, cucumbers, carrots or what ever you like.  There are a lot of ways to spice it up a little.  Salsa can be a great toping for taco salad. Strawberries can really make a salad amazing.

 Remember to drink water and keep it up!

Vioces!!!

While I was running today I heard someone clapping, it was just my thoughts cheering me on.

OK, OK, so this isn’t the original quote. The original quote said thighs not thoughts but because my reading skills are awesome I read it thoughts the first time and really liked it. :) 

What are your thoughts saying to you?

This is a topic I have wanted to write about for a while and have talked about before.  There are always those people around or maybe our own self doubt that keep saying

"Oh, don't go workout today it is too windy, late, hard, busy, tired. ....

Fill in with you own excuse". 

or

"Oh just eat some cake and ice cream, you worked hard for it."

 or

"You can't lose weight you never have been able to, it's in your genes."

   or

"You can't lose any more weight.  You never have been able to get past this number"

To those thoughts I say

STOP IT!!!! 

 I am hoping you have some voices in your head or people around encouraging you instead....

 "I'll take the kids, go workout.  I know it is important to you"

 or

"I cooked the chicken on the grill instead of deep frying it today" 

 or 

"You walk a little taller when you workout"

  or 
"Man I feel great when I eat healthy"
or
"I went for a walk!!!"
or

 "YOU CAN DO IT.  KEEP GOING!!!" 

Now, I am one of those people that talks to myself and I am ok with it, :)  When im running or riding up a big hill I say "I can do this" when I'm looing at the thing of Oreos I say "No, find something healthy for snack!"  I want you to give it a try.  Say 3 nice, encouraging, uplifting things to yourself today.  Remember the list of things we like about ourselves we made.  Now might be the time to get it out and look at it if you need to.  Please do not let self doubt or negativity keep you down.  You CAN do this if you put the effort out.  Sometimes there are rough parts and stall parts and not enough time parts but don't let that stop you.  Take every good effort and give yourself the praise you deserve, then push through keeping your goal in mind. Tell yourself you can do it and believe it!

 

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